Quotes with ocean

  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
  • On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
  • What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
  • We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
  • I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
  • The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
  • We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
  • Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
  • If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
  • If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Hubert Humphrey American public opinion is like an ocean - it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
    Billy Ocean
     
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brendon Urie From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • William Lyon Phelps God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • George de Benneville Honor the ocean of love.
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  • Arthur C. Clarke How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Charles Darwin I hate every wave of the ocean, with a fervor
    Letter to W.D. Fox, 15 februari 1836
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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